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THE ARGUS
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
VOL. 43 BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1936
An expert is only a
damned foo1 a long ways
from home.--Sandburg.
NO. 7
Kryl Symphony
Large Audi4
Pleasing
Personality
Of
Kryl and Soloist Shown
In Interview
By VERE WOLF
The easy, pleasant personal-ity
that Bohumir Kryl estab-lished
on the stage last Monday
night is not an "act." In real
life he is just as delightful and
much less formal. After the
concert, while he was still but-toning
his vest, he opened the
door and invited me to come
in.
"And what is it you want to
know?" he asked, his gray eyes
alive with humor and interest.
He seemed to be perfectly at
home in the crowded little
room, and had the astonishing
ability of making me feel the
same.
On the Road
"I live on the road," he ex-plained.
"I am almost con-stantly
on tour, but there's a
home in Chicago and one in
New York that I find time to
visit between tours."
The orchestra is now in its
seventh week of its present sea- 1
son, and has been booked for t
eleven more weeks, Mr. Kryl s
explained. They often give two t
concerts daily; their perform-ance
Monday night was the
third of the day. Yet. they
were very generous with en-cores!
His relation with the "boys"
of the orchestra is genial, even
paternal. For example, the
false decorations on the upper ]
hl of the musicians in the
symphony were put on as a
joke for Mr. Kryl.
With Sousa Band
It was forty years ago that t
the young Kryl joined the band
of John Philip Sousa, being a
prominent member until he es-tablished
his own band in 1904.
He particularly enjoys inter-preting
the music of his native
Bohemia; but he also loves the
music of his adopted America,
as he shows by placing several ]
American compositions on his]
encore program.
Kryl could have been a fine
sculptor if he had so decided;
but even after he had estab-lished
a reputation in that field,
he gave it up for his real love
music. "I love beautiful plc-tures,"
he said. "I have a large
collection of fine paintings-but
music! Ah, music is the
real thing!"
And so he smiled another
rich smile, gave me a warm
hand-clasp, and hurried away;
for the Kryl Symphony was
scheduled to appear at one
o'clock on Tuesday in Jackson,
Mich.
By DONNA BROWN
"It's lots of fun," admitted
Miss Margery Maxwell, soprano
with the famous Kryl Orches-tra,
in answer to a question re-garding
her career. "Most in-teresting
to me is the reaction
of the various audiences before
which we appear. "You know,"
she added, "many people in the
smallest towns are the most
appreciative of good music.
They are literally starved for
it."
With Galli-Curci
Miss Maxwell's debut was as
a member of the Chicago Opera
Company was made before the
age of twenty years when she
opened with Galli-Curci in "Di-norah."
This talent took her to the
Continent and for a time she
appeared in the Grand Opera
Company of Bordeaux, France.
For the past ten seasons she
has done much concert work
and has sung with the Ravinia
Opera Company and the Chi-cago
Opera Company.
Likes College Audience
As a whole, Miss Maxwell
finds college audiences very re-
(Continued on page 4)
Pleases Fourth Vespers
enee at Concert Sunday; Harvey
And McNaught
The fourth in the faculty
series of Vesper recitals has
been announced for Sunday,
Nov. 1. Miss Alice McNaught,
pianist, and Mr. Russell Har-vey,
trombonist, will be the sol-oists
of the afternoon with
Frank B. Jordan as accompan-
Opera Singer
And Harpist
Are Popular
The Kryl Symphony Orches-tra
concert of Oct. 26 was at-tended
by a large and enthu-siastic
audience. The soloists of
the evening were very popular
and each responded with an
encore. Miss Clow, harpist,
played the Irish air "Last Rose
of Summer," as her additional
number. Margery Maxwell, so-prano
soloist, after singing the
"Depuis le jour" aria from
"Louise," chose the coquettish
Musetta Waltz from Puccini's
"La Boheme" as her well-de-served
encore. Mr. Kryl, cornet
soloist of the evening, was
given such a burst of applause
that even after his encore, Ne-nin's
"Mighty Lak a Rose," the
program was continued with
difficulty.
The program was given with
a few changes from the orig-inal
scheduled one. The open-ing
"Bartered Bride Overture"
seemed to be best suited to Mr.
Kryl's interpretive gifts. Mac-
Dowell's "To a Wild Rose" was
played as an encore. Then
came Miss Clow's harp solos.
Rimsky-Korsakoff
The first of the three Scher-azade
movements programmed
was omitted; but the last two
portions of the Rimsky-Korsa-koff
suite were followed by the
popular "Flight of the Bumble
Bee" by the same composer.
W a g n e r 's "Meistersinger Pre-lude"
brought the concert to the
intermission.
Immediately after the inter-mission,
Mr. Kryl gave his
unique arrangement of the
"Carnival of Venice." In his
cornet solo he demonstrated
his ability to play two full oc-taves
below the normal range
of the instrument. The Largo
and Scherzo movements of
Dvorak's symphony "From the
New World" continued the pro-gram.
The Finale was omitted.
Percy Grainger's "Sheperd Hey"
was played here as an encore.
The Strauss waltz was omitted
and instead of the "Capriccio
Italien," Mr. Kryl closed his
concert with John Powell's
"Three Virginia Dances." the
only final encore was the
"American Patrol March."
Wesieyan Member
Mr. Raeburn MacNeal, last
year a student in the Music
School, plays string bass with
the Kryl Orchestra. He joined
the organization in September
and after only four days of re-hearsal,
began the present tour.
i Junior Pictures Are t
Due This Week I
All this week is set aside
for the juniors to get their
Wesleyana pictures taken at
the United Photo.
The individual photo-ist.
Miss McNaught, new vocal
coach, will open the program
with three movements of the
Brahms "Sonata in F Minor."
The Brahms piano sonatas are
rarely heard; not because they
lack interest, but because of
the technical and musical diffi-culties
they contain. Leonard
Liebling, noted music critic,
says, "A first hearing of a
Brahms piano sonata is like
opening the gate of a new
world of beauty."
Mr. Harvey's first group in-cludes
the familiar Italian song
of Giordani, "Caro mio ben,"
and an "Aria" by the modern
French composer, Ibert.
Miss McNaught's closing group
opens with the Chopin Etude,
Opus 25, No. 5. The second se-lection
is one of the few truly
great compositions of piano
literature, Debussy's "Clair de
Lune." Closing the group is the
"Caprice-Burlesque" by Gabri-lowitsch.
This number is par-ticularly
fitting as the music
world is still in mourning over
the recent death of its com-poser,
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, dis-tinguished
pianist and popular
conductor of the Detroit sym-phony.
Mr. Harvey will close the re-cital
with a trombone solo,
"Concert Sketch, No. 5" by Bla-zevich.
The trombone as a solo
instrument is seldom heard. Mr.
Harvey's concerts are therefore
informative as well as enter-taining.
Wesleyan - Eureka
Debate Teams Hold
Preliminary Tilts
An aggregation of 25 Wesley-an
debaters invaded E u r e k a
College on board the Green
and White bus last Thursday
for a preliminary discussion of
consumers' cooperatives, t h i s
year's debate question. Accom-paning
the group as chaperons
were Norman W. Hickman, var-sity
debate coach, and Mrs. S.
C. Ratcliffe.
The Eureka chapter of Pi
Kappa Delta entertained the
large Wesleyan delegation in
their college dormitory center
which they call "The Wood."
This huge white southern col-onial
building houses the col-lege
dining hall besides provid-ing
recreational rooms and a
student lounge.
In the afternoon Wesleyan
was represented in a round-table
discussion by Maida Rett-berg,
Evelyn Loy, and Eliza-beth
Ratcliffe. Their negative
opponents, Miss Hurt and Miss
Carney, p res en t ed the case
against consumers' cooperation.
At the conclusion of each five-minute
constructive speech, the
speaker was required to answer
two questions put by the oppos-ing
team. The time limit on
these replies necessitated some
quick thinking in the course
of the dscussion.
The dinner at the dormitory
was interspersed with the sing-ing
of favorite college songs
and the Wesleyan group ren-dered
the cheer song with a
gusto that should make Titan
cheer leaders swell with pride.
graphs will be taken any
time during the week or on
S u n d a y b y appointment
with Mr. Moore. On week-days
the photo shop is open
from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
S e n i o r pictures will be
taken next week.
a
owfo minetne reasnt d beftrwesehemn enu.p peAr ll clwaos-s I
men who are on the Illinois
Wesleyan campus for the first
time are divided into groups
to afford an opportunity for
each girl to attend one of the
suppers during the year. The
Council plans to entertain a
group each month.
Discussion Groups
The particular relationship of
the Senior Counselors, who act
in the capacity of friendly ad-visers
at all times, is to be
developed through discus-sion
groups composed of from
10 to 15 freshmen women under
the leadership of a counselor.
The questions discussed will be
related to the intimate prob-lems
of campus life among wo-men
students. These meetings
are directed toward the develop-ment
of a well-balanced college
life.
VESPER RECITAL CHANGED
The vesper recital audience
of Oct. 25 was surprised to find
that both Mr. Green and Mrs.
Wills scheduled to appear on
the porgram, were indisposed.
Instead, the program was pre-sentated
by alumni of the
School of Music.
Religious Week Is
Opened by Anderson
Republicans
Are Winners
In Argus Poll
If the national election were
held today, and confined to the
Wesleyan campus, the Republi-can
candidates for president,
governor and United States sen-ator
would be elected by a mar-gin
of more than three to two
over their Democratic rivals,
while the Union-Progressive
and Socialist parties combined
would receive less than three
per cent of the total student
vote. This is the verdict of the
straw vote taken by the Argus
last Friday to determine the
political sentiments of the Wes-leyan
student body.
Out of a total of 260 ballots
cast, the following results were
obtained:
For President:
Landon 162 Thomas 5
Roosevlt 91 Lemke 2
For Governor:
Brooks 164 Thompson 3
Horner 87 McDowell 1
For Senator
Glenn 166 Jenkins 1
Lewis 87 Fisher 1
From the very first mention
of the Landon candidacy, Wes-leyan
students seemed to have
considered him favorably. Bal-loting
under the auspices of the
Argus last spring revealed a
definite trend for Landon even I
before he was selected by the
convention.
That the third party boom is
not regarded as important by
students h e r e i s significant.
This might be interpreted as
an indication of conservatism
among Wesleyan students. Ap-proximately
half the students
scratched their ballot.
In the School of Music there
was the heaviest vote. More
men in the school at large,
voted than women, the propor-tion
being about three to two.
No great difference was regis-tered
between the balloting of
men and women.
Ballots were cast in two pre-cincts
and according to the Au-stralian
ballot system.
Senior Council
Entertains Frosh
Girls at Supper
On Thursday evening, Oct.
22, 15 women of the freshman
class were guests of the Senior
Council at a supper given in
the Hut.
Through informal meetings
it is planned to develop a unity[
The Vassar Miscellany favors
Roosevelt. It also came out for
the Giants in the recent World
Series.
Forum for Students Only
At 4 This Afternoon;
Interviews All Week
Bishop William F. Anderson
formally opened Religious Em-phasis
Week on the Wesleyan
campus this morning with an
address in chapel. The religious
program will continue until Fri-day
noon when Bishop Ander-son
concludes his schedule of
addresses and personal inter-views
with students.
Wesleyan is fortunate to have
secured as a counselor a man
with such a notable background
of experience as student ad-visor,
college president, and
world citizen. As professor of
religion at Carleton College and
as president of Boston Univer-sity,
he has come to understand
the student problems of today.
For four years he was editor
of the magazine, "The Christian
Student" and has thus come
into vital contact with student
religious life all over America.
In his own student days at Ohio
W e s le y a n University he was
elected to membership in Phi
Beta Kappa scholastic fratern-ity.
Successful Student Leader
Recently Bishop Anderson has
been devoting his entire time
and attention to such student
programs as he will conduct on
this campus all week. By way
of recommending him, Presi-dent
Harper of Evansville Col-lege
stated that Bishop Ander-son
recently conducted the most
effective religious program ever
to be attempted on that cam-pus.
Dr. Marlatt of Boston Univer-sity
had this to say: "Bishop
Anderson made the Bible as
modern and as living as this
morning's newspaper and vast-ly
more important."
Following the Wednesday
chapel service, Bishop Anderson
will begin meeting students for
personal interviews throughout
the day. At noon he is to lead
an informal discussion at the
faculty luncheon at Grace M.E.
Church. An afternoon forum
for students only is scheduled
for 4 p. m. in Amie Chapel to
which all members of the stu-dent
body are invited.
Representative Group
This evening, Bishop Ander-son
is to meet a large group of
representative students at 7 p.
m. in the Hut. Beryl McDonald
will preside at the conference
where specific problems of in-dividual
and group religious ac-tion
will be discussed.
All day Thursday will be set
a s id e for personal interviews
with Bishop Anderson by ap-
(Continued on page 4)
Bishop W. F. Anderson
Kappa Deltas
Install Chapter
At Monmouth
Members of the Wesleyan
chapter of Kappa Delta soror-ity
with delegates from every
chapter in Delta province par-ticipated
in the installation of
Beta Gamma chapter, formerly
Theta Chi Nu society, at Mon-mouth
College, Monmouth, Ill.,
from Oct. 22 to Oct. 24.
Ada McDonnell Smith, na-tional
officer from Memphis,
Tenn., was the installing of-ficer,
and she was assisted by
Lulu Grace Saberson of Des
Moines, Ia., and Helen Peck of
Ames, Ia., also officers of the
National Council.
A tea was given Thursday af-ternoon;
pledge services and
second degrees were conducted
Friday and the initiation cere-mony
for 25 took place Satur-day
afternoon. A formal din-ner
was given Sartuday evening
in honor of the new initiates.
Lyon and Meyers
Give S. K. Recital;
62nd Anniversary
A reception and musicale
was given Monday evening, Oc-tober
19th by Sigma Kappa
sorority in honor of the 62nd
anniversary of its founding.
Active and alumnae chapter
members acted as hostesses to
the group which gathered in
Presser Hall.
Mrs. Blanche Boyce Meyers of
Davenport, Iowa and Miss Ruth
Lyon of Chicago, both members
of the Eta chapter which was
established at Wesleyan in 1906,
presented the music.
Mrs. Meyers is a well-known
organist and composer and dur-ing
the course of the program,
she offered one of her own
compositions. Her numbers were
presented in a truly artistic
style which delighted the listen-ers
as did the vocal offerings
by Miss Lyon.
Miss Lyon, a soprano, has ap-peared
in va r io us symphony
orchestras and for the past six
years has been an NBC staff
artist. She appeared in Bloom-ington
last winter as soprano
soloist in the Philharmonic pro-duction
of "The Messiah." She
was accompanied by Mr. Philip
Jorgenson.
This organization represented
the 22nd chapter to be installed
by Ada McDonnell Smith.
Many Bloomington alumnae
and members of Omicron chap-ter
witnessed the services.
Swanson Thanks I
His Committees
What a lot of grief and what
a relief now that the 19 3 6
Homecoming has come to an
end I feel sure that it has
been a great success. May I
take this opportunity to express
my sincere thanks for the won-derful
cooperation f r o m the
various committees who worked
so diligently, to the student
body for the fine spirit shown,
and to the faculty for the good
advice. Aside from the few who
were disheartened over not win-ning
some of the Homecoming
awards, I feel that everyone was
satisfied and enjoyed himself
to the utmost.
May Homecoming be just as
successful, or more so, in the
future.
Homecoming Chairman
Dave E. Swanson

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THE ARGUS
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
VOL. 43 BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1936
An expert is only a
damned foo1 a long ways
from home.--Sandburg.
NO. 7
Kryl Symphony
Large Audi4
Pleasing
Personality
Of
Kryl and Soloist Shown
In Interview
By VERE WOLF
The easy, pleasant personal-ity
that Bohumir Kryl estab-lished
on the stage last Monday
night is not an "act." In real
life he is just as delightful and
much less formal. After the
concert, while he was still but-toning
his vest, he opened the
door and invited me to come
in.
"And what is it you want to
know?" he asked, his gray eyes
alive with humor and interest.
He seemed to be perfectly at
home in the crowded little
room, and had the astonishing
ability of making me feel the
same.
On the Road
"I live on the road," he ex-plained.
"I am almost con-stantly
on tour, but there's a
home in Chicago and one in
New York that I find time to
visit between tours."
The orchestra is now in its
seventh week of its present sea- 1
son, and has been booked for t
eleven more weeks, Mr. Kryl s
explained. They often give two t
concerts daily; their perform-ance
Monday night was the
third of the day. Yet. they
were very generous with en-cores!
His relation with the "boys"
of the orchestra is genial, even
paternal. For example, the
false decorations on the upper ]
hl of the musicians in the
symphony were put on as a
joke for Mr. Kryl.
With Sousa Band
It was forty years ago that t
the young Kryl joined the band
of John Philip Sousa, being a
prominent member until he es-tablished
his own band in 1904.
He particularly enjoys inter-preting
the music of his native
Bohemia; but he also loves the
music of his adopted America,
as he shows by placing several ]
American compositions on his]
encore program.
Kryl could have been a fine
sculptor if he had so decided;
but even after he had estab-lished
a reputation in that field,
he gave it up for his real love
music. "I love beautiful plc-tures,"
he said. "I have a large
collection of fine paintings-but
music! Ah, music is the
real thing!"
And so he smiled another
rich smile, gave me a warm
hand-clasp, and hurried away;
for the Kryl Symphony was
scheduled to appear at one
o'clock on Tuesday in Jackson,
Mich.
By DONNA BROWN
"It's lots of fun," admitted
Miss Margery Maxwell, soprano
with the famous Kryl Orches-tra,
in answer to a question re-garding
her career. "Most in-teresting
to me is the reaction
of the various audiences before
which we appear. "You know,"
she added, "many people in the
smallest towns are the most
appreciative of good music.
They are literally starved for
it."
With Galli-Curci
Miss Maxwell's debut was as
a member of the Chicago Opera
Company was made before the
age of twenty years when she
opened with Galli-Curci in "Di-norah."
This talent took her to the
Continent and for a time she
appeared in the Grand Opera
Company of Bordeaux, France.
For the past ten seasons she
has done much concert work
and has sung with the Ravinia
Opera Company and the Chi-cago
Opera Company.
Likes College Audience
As a whole, Miss Maxwell
finds college audiences very re-
(Continued on page 4)
Pleases Fourth Vespers
enee at Concert Sunday; Harvey
And McNaught
The fourth in the faculty
series of Vesper recitals has
been announced for Sunday,
Nov. 1. Miss Alice McNaught,
pianist, and Mr. Russell Har-vey,
trombonist, will be the sol-oists
of the afternoon with
Frank B. Jordan as accompan-
Opera Singer
And Harpist
Are Popular
The Kryl Symphony Orches-tra
concert of Oct. 26 was at-tended
by a large and enthu-siastic
audience. The soloists of
the evening were very popular
and each responded with an
encore. Miss Clow, harpist,
played the Irish air "Last Rose
of Summer," as her additional
number. Margery Maxwell, so-prano
soloist, after singing the
"Depuis le jour" aria from
"Louise," chose the coquettish
Musetta Waltz from Puccini's
"La Boheme" as her well-de-served
encore. Mr. Kryl, cornet
soloist of the evening, was
given such a burst of applause
that even after his encore, Ne-nin's
"Mighty Lak a Rose," the
program was continued with
difficulty.
The program was given with
a few changes from the orig-inal
scheduled one. The open-ing
"Bartered Bride Overture"
seemed to be best suited to Mr.
Kryl's interpretive gifts. Mac-
Dowell's "To a Wild Rose" was
played as an encore. Then
came Miss Clow's harp solos.
Rimsky-Korsakoff
The first of the three Scher-azade
movements programmed
was omitted; but the last two
portions of the Rimsky-Korsa-koff
suite were followed by the
popular "Flight of the Bumble
Bee" by the same composer.
W a g n e r 's "Meistersinger Pre-lude"
brought the concert to the
intermission.
Immediately after the inter-mission,
Mr. Kryl gave his
unique arrangement of the
"Carnival of Venice." In his
cornet solo he demonstrated
his ability to play two full oc-taves
below the normal range
of the instrument. The Largo
and Scherzo movements of
Dvorak's symphony "From the
New World" continued the pro-gram.
The Finale was omitted.
Percy Grainger's "Sheperd Hey"
was played here as an encore.
The Strauss waltz was omitted
and instead of the "Capriccio
Italien," Mr. Kryl closed his
concert with John Powell's
"Three Virginia Dances." the
only final encore was the
"American Patrol March."
Wesieyan Member
Mr. Raeburn MacNeal, last
year a student in the Music
School, plays string bass with
the Kryl Orchestra. He joined
the organization in September
and after only four days of re-hearsal,
began the present tour.
i Junior Pictures Are t
Due This Week I
All this week is set aside
for the juniors to get their
Wesleyana pictures taken at
the United Photo.
The individual photo-ist.
Miss McNaught, new vocal
coach, will open the program
with three movements of the
Brahms "Sonata in F Minor."
The Brahms piano sonatas are
rarely heard; not because they
lack interest, but because of
the technical and musical diffi-culties
they contain. Leonard
Liebling, noted music critic,
says, "A first hearing of a
Brahms piano sonata is like
opening the gate of a new
world of beauty."
Mr. Harvey's first group in-cludes
the familiar Italian song
of Giordani, "Caro mio ben,"
and an "Aria" by the modern
French composer, Ibert.
Miss McNaught's closing group
opens with the Chopin Etude,
Opus 25, No. 5. The second se-lection
is one of the few truly
great compositions of piano
literature, Debussy's "Clair de
Lune." Closing the group is the
"Caprice-Burlesque" by Gabri-lowitsch.
This number is par-ticularly
fitting as the music
world is still in mourning over
the recent death of its com-poser,
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, dis-tinguished
pianist and popular
conductor of the Detroit sym-phony.
Mr. Harvey will close the re-cital
with a trombone solo,
"Concert Sketch, No. 5" by Bla-zevich.
The trombone as a solo
instrument is seldom heard. Mr.
Harvey's concerts are therefore
informative as well as enter-taining.
Wesleyan - Eureka
Debate Teams Hold
Preliminary Tilts
An aggregation of 25 Wesley-an
debaters invaded E u r e k a
College on board the Green
and White bus last Thursday
for a preliminary discussion of
consumers' cooperatives, t h i s
year's debate question. Accom-paning
the group as chaperons
were Norman W. Hickman, var-sity
debate coach, and Mrs. S.
C. Ratcliffe.
The Eureka chapter of Pi
Kappa Delta entertained the
large Wesleyan delegation in
their college dormitory center
which they call "The Wood."
This huge white southern col-onial
building houses the col-lege
dining hall besides provid-ing
recreational rooms and a
student lounge.
In the afternoon Wesleyan
was represented in a round-table
discussion by Maida Rett-berg,
Evelyn Loy, and Eliza-beth
Ratcliffe. Their negative
opponents, Miss Hurt and Miss
Carney, p res en t ed the case
against consumers' cooperation.
At the conclusion of each five-minute
constructive speech, the
speaker was required to answer
two questions put by the oppos-ing
team. The time limit on
these replies necessitated some
quick thinking in the course
of the dscussion.
The dinner at the dormitory
was interspersed with the sing-ing
of favorite college songs
and the Wesleyan group ren-dered
the cheer song with a
gusto that should make Titan
cheer leaders swell with pride.
graphs will be taken any
time during the week or on
S u n d a y b y appointment
with Mr. Moore. On week-days
the photo shop is open
from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
S e n i o r pictures will be
taken next week.
a
owfo minetne reasnt d beftrwesehemn enu.p peAr ll clwaos-s I
men who are on the Illinois
Wesleyan campus for the first
time are divided into groups
to afford an opportunity for
each girl to attend one of the
suppers during the year. The
Council plans to entertain a
group each month.
Discussion Groups
The particular relationship of
the Senior Counselors, who act
in the capacity of friendly ad-visers
at all times, is to be
developed through discus-sion
groups composed of from
10 to 15 freshmen women under
the leadership of a counselor.
The questions discussed will be
related to the intimate prob-lems
of campus life among wo-men
students. These meetings
are directed toward the develop-ment
of a well-balanced college
life.
VESPER RECITAL CHANGED
The vesper recital audience
of Oct. 25 was surprised to find
that both Mr. Green and Mrs.
Wills scheduled to appear on
the porgram, were indisposed.
Instead, the program was pre-sentated
by alumni of the
School of Music.
Religious Week Is
Opened by Anderson
Republicans
Are Winners
In Argus Poll
If the national election were
held today, and confined to the
Wesleyan campus, the Republi-can
candidates for president,
governor and United States sen-ator
would be elected by a mar-gin
of more than three to two
over their Democratic rivals,
while the Union-Progressive
and Socialist parties combined
would receive less than three
per cent of the total student
vote. This is the verdict of the
straw vote taken by the Argus
last Friday to determine the
political sentiments of the Wes-leyan
student body.
Out of a total of 260 ballots
cast, the following results were
obtained:
For President:
Landon 162 Thomas 5
Roosevlt 91 Lemke 2
For Governor:
Brooks 164 Thompson 3
Horner 87 McDowell 1
For Senator
Glenn 166 Jenkins 1
Lewis 87 Fisher 1
From the very first mention
of the Landon candidacy, Wes-leyan
students seemed to have
considered him favorably. Bal-loting
under the auspices of the
Argus last spring revealed a
definite trend for Landon even I
before he was selected by the
convention.
That the third party boom is
not regarded as important by
students h e r e i s significant.
This might be interpreted as
an indication of conservatism
among Wesleyan students. Ap-proximately
half the students
scratched their ballot.
In the School of Music there
was the heaviest vote. More
men in the school at large,
voted than women, the propor-tion
being about three to two.
No great difference was regis-tered
between the balloting of
men and women.
Ballots were cast in two pre-cincts
and according to the Au-stralian
ballot system.
Senior Council
Entertains Frosh
Girls at Supper
On Thursday evening, Oct.
22, 15 women of the freshman
class were guests of the Senior
Council at a supper given in
the Hut.
Through informal meetings
it is planned to develop a unity[
The Vassar Miscellany favors
Roosevelt. It also came out for
the Giants in the recent World
Series.
Forum for Students Only
At 4 This Afternoon;
Interviews All Week
Bishop William F. Anderson
formally opened Religious Em-phasis
Week on the Wesleyan
campus this morning with an
address in chapel. The religious
program will continue until Fri-day
noon when Bishop Ander-son
concludes his schedule of
addresses and personal inter-views
with students.
Wesleyan is fortunate to have
secured as a counselor a man
with such a notable background
of experience as student ad-visor,
college president, and
world citizen. As professor of
religion at Carleton College and
as president of Boston Univer-sity,
he has come to understand
the student problems of today.
For four years he was editor
of the magazine, "The Christian
Student" and has thus come
into vital contact with student
religious life all over America.
In his own student days at Ohio
W e s le y a n University he was
elected to membership in Phi
Beta Kappa scholastic fratern-ity.
Successful Student Leader
Recently Bishop Anderson has
been devoting his entire time
and attention to such student
programs as he will conduct on
this campus all week. By way
of recommending him, Presi-dent
Harper of Evansville Col-lege
stated that Bishop Ander-son
recently conducted the most
effective religious program ever
to be attempted on that cam-pus.
Dr. Marlatt of Boston Univer-sity
had this to say: "Bishop
Anderson made the Bible as
modern and as living as this
morning's newspaper and vast-ly
more important."
Following the Wednesday
chapel service, Bishop Anderson
will begin meeting students for
personal interviews throughout
the day. At noon he is to lead
an informal discussion at the
faculty luncheon at Grace M.E.
Church. An afternoon forum
for students only is scheduled
for 4 p. m. in Amie Chapel to
which all members of the stu-dent
body are invited.
Representative Group
This evening, Bishop Ander-son
is to meet a large group of
representative students at 7 p.
m. in the Hut. Beryl McDonald
will preside at the conference
where specific problems of in-dividual
and group religious ac-tion
will be discussed.
All day Thursday will be set
a s id e for personal interviews
with Bishop Anderson by ap-
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Bishop W. F. Anderson
Kappa Deltas
Install Chapter
At Monmouth
Members of the Wesleyan
chapter of Kappa Delta soror-ity
with delegates from every
chapter in Delta province par-ticipated
in the installation of
Beta Gamma chapter, formerly
Theta Chi Nu society, at Mon-mouth
College, Monmouth, Ill.,
from Oct. 22 to Oct. 24.
Ada McDonnell Smith, na-tional
officer from Memphis,
Tenn., was the installing of-ficer,
and she was assisted by
Lulu Grace Saberson of Des
Moines, Ia., and Helen Peck of
Ames, Ia., also officers of the
National Council.
A tea was given Thursday af-ternoon;
pledge services and
second degrees were conducted
Friday and the initiation cere-mony
for 25 took place Satur-day
afternoon. A formal din-ner
was given Sartuday evening
in honor of the new initiates.
Lyon and Meyers
Give S. K. Recital;
62nd Anniversary
A reception and musicale
was given Monday evening, Oc-tober
19th by Sigma Kappa
sorority in honor of the 62nd
anniversary of its founding.
Active and alumnae chapter
members acted as hostesses to
the group which gathered in
Presser Hall.
Mrs. Blanche Boyce Meyers of
Davenport, Iowa and Miss Ruth
Lyon of Chicago, both members
of the Eta chapter which was
established at Wesleyan in 1906,
presented the music.
Mrs. Meyers is a well-known
organist and composer and dur-ing
the course of the program,
she offered one of her own
compositions. Her numbers were
presented in a truly artistic
style which delighted the listen-ers
as did the vocal offerings
by Miss Lyon.
Miss Lyon, a soprano, has ap-peared
in va r io us symphony
orchestras and for the past six
years has been an NBC staff
artist. She appeared in Bloom-ington
last winter as soprano
soloist in the Philharmonic pro-duction
of "The Messiah." She
was accompanied by Mr. Philip
Jorgenson.
This organization represented
the 22nd chapter to be installed
by Ada McDonnell Smith.
Many Bloomington alumnae
and members of Omicron chap-ter
witnessed the services.
Swanson Thanks I
His Committees
What a lot of grief and what
a relief now that the 19 3 6
Homecoming has come to an
end I feel sure that it has
been a great success. May I
take this opportunity to express
my sincere thanks for the won-derful
cooperation f r o m the
various committees who worked
so diligently, to the student
body for the fine spirit shown,
and to the faculty for the good
advice. Aside from the few who
were disheartened over not win-ning
some of the Homecoming
awards, I feel that everyone was
satisfied and enjoyed himself
to the utmost.
May Homecoming be just as
successful, or more so, in the
future.
Homecoming Chairman
Dave E. Swanson